Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon

Prussian statesman

Also known as: Jean-Pierre-Frédéric Ancillon

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French:: Jean-pierre-frédéric Ancillon

Born:: April 30, 1767, Berlin, Prussia

Died:: April 19, 1837, Berlin (aged 69)

Also Known As:: Jean-Pierre-Frédéric Ancillon

Title / Office:: foreign minister (1832-1837), Prussia

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Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon (born April 30, 1767, Berlin, Prussia—died April 19, 1837, Berlin) was a Prussian statesman, foreign minister, historian, and political philosopher who worked with the Austrian statesman Metternich to preserve the reactionary European political settlement of 1815.

Educated in Geneva, Ancillon acquired a chair in history at the Berlin Military Academy in 1792. After the publication of Tableau des révolutions du système politique de l’Europe depuis le XV^e siècle, 4 vol. (1803–05; “View of European Political Revolutions Since the Fifteenth Century”), he was admitted to the Berlin Academy and became tutor to the future Frederick William IV, in whom he instilled a deep antipathy toward revolution.

During his service with the ministry of foreign affairs, which he headed from 1832 until his death, Ancillon, a Prussian nationalist and romantic, worked closely with Austria and Russia in combating liberalism.

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